05/01/2012: “The Nuclear Crisis: Cold War Cultures and the Politics of Peace and Security, 1975-1990,” Work in Progress Series, Arts & Humanities, New York University Abu Dhabi

03/20/2012: “The New Left in Europe,” Lecture, New York University

12/08/2011: “Transnational Diplomacy: Grassroots Challenges to U.S. Foreign Policy during the Cold War,” Department of International History, The Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Geneva, Switzerland

12/06/2011: “The Other Alliance: Student Protest in West Germany & the United States in the Global Sixties,” Institute of International Studies, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic

03/08/2011: Book Talk and Panel Discussion, “Radical Liaisons and Race: Germany and the U.S. in the Global Sixties,” New School for Social Research, Parsons The New School for Design, New York, NY (with Maria Hoehn, Jeremy Varon, and Norbert Frei)

09/23/2009: “Yes, We Can! Political Rhetoric in the U.S. and German Elections,” Goethe-Institute, Washington, DC

02/04/2009: “”Modern Germany’s Engagement with the Holocaust,” School of Law, Washington and Lee University, Virginia

12/04/2008: “1968 and the Courts,” Roundtable, School of Law, Washington and Lee University, Virginia

11/25/2008: “Commemoration through Contestation: The Afterlives of ‘1968’ in Germany,” International Conference, “1968: From History to Memory,” History Department, University of Helsinki, Finland

11/25/2008: “1968 in Germany,” Goethe-Institute, Helsinki, Finland

10/17/2008: “‘The Struggle Continues’: The Sixties in Transnational Cultural Memory,” International Conference, “What Remains? 1968 in the European and American Imaginary,” Croft Institute for International Studies, Oxford, University of Mississippi

08/07/2008: “Speaking About History: Historical and Linguistic Dimensions of Oral History,” (Workshop with Joachim Scharloth) Historical Sociolinguistics Network (HISON), 2nd HiSoN Summer School “History and Language, Linguists and Historians,” School of Modern Languages, University of Bristol, UK

04/17/08: “Revisiting the Revolution: The Sixties in Transnational Cultural Memory,” International Conference “Memories of 1968: International Perspectives,” University of Leeds, UK

04/14/08: “Black and Red Panthers: International Black Power Solidarity in the 1960/70s,” Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, NY

03/14/08: “The New Left and the ‘Other Alliance’,” Investigative Workshop, “New Directions in Transatlantic History, Politics, Culture, and Society,” European Union Center for Excellence, University of Wisconsin, Madison

03/09/08: “Between Berkeley and Berlin, San Francisco and Frankfurt: The Transatlantic Protest Networks of ‘1968’ and Their Historical Legacy,” 16th Annual Interdisciplinary German Studies Conference “Rebellion and Revolution – Defiance in German Language, History and Art,” University of California, Berkeley

Conference Presentations:

01/07/2012: “Heroes of the Other America: East German Solidarity with the Black Freedom Struggle,” Panel “Global Connections among Struggles for Racial Justice: Britain, Germany, South Africa, and the United States,” Annual Meeting of the American Historical Association, Chicago

11/28/2011: “From Environmental Movement to ‘Anti-Parties Party’: The Rise of the West German Greens in 1980s Cold War Culture,” International Workshop, “Dopo il Sessantotto. Movimenti di protesta in Italia e in Europa negli ultimi decenni della Guerra Fredda” [After ’68. Protests movement in Italy and Europe in the last decades of the Cold War], Senate Library, Rome (convened together with Valentine Lomellini and Valerio Augusto Strinati)

10/01/2011: “Petra Kelly and the Nuclear Crisis of the 1980s,” Research Seminar, German Historical Institute, Washington, DC

09/22-25/2011: “Pop for Peace? Nuclear and Environmental Discourse in 1980s Popular Music,” Panel “Cultural Approaches to West and East German Peace Activism in the 1970s and 1980s,” Annual Conference of the German Studies Association, Louisville, Kentucky (paper)

07/01/2011: “History as Politics: The Contrasting Political Uses of American History on Either Side of the Atlantic,” (with Tibor Frank and Stephen Tuck), International Network Conference, “You, the People: National Location and the Writing of American History – The Example of Europe,” Rothermere American Institute, Oxford University, UK

01/08/2011: “Revolutionary Alliances: The African American Civil Rights Struggle in Divided Germany,” Panel “Imagining Black Power in the Global Sixties from Berlin to Beijing,” Annual Meeting of the American Historical Association, Boston

11/04-06/2010: “Between 99 Red Balloonsand a Green Caterpillar: Nuclear and Environmental Discourse in 1980s Popular Music and Electoral Politics,” International Conference, “Accidental Armageddons: The Nuclear Crisis and the Culture of the Second Cold War, 1975-1989” (convened together with Eckart Conze and Jeremy Varon)

10/09/09: “Countering The Other Alliance: Transatlantic Student Protest and the U.S. Department of State in 1960/70s,” German Studies Association Annual Conference, Washington, DC / Society for the History of American Foreign Relations, Annual Conference, Falls Church, Virginia

06/28/09: “Countering The Other Alliance: Transatlantic Student Protest and the U.S. Department of State in 1960/70s,” German Studies Association Annual Conference, Washington, DC / Society for the History of American Foreign Relations, Annual Conference, Falls Church, Virginia

03/05/2009: From June 2 to Kent State: Transnational Symbols and Collective Identities,” International Conference “1968 in Japan, Germany and the United States: Political Protest and Cultural Change,” Japanese-German Center, Berlin

05/29/08: “’The Whole World is Watching’: Recontextualization of Global Protest Cultures in the Alternative Media of the 1960s/70s,” Panel on “1968 and the Media – Transnational Relations and Local Struggles” at the Zeitgeschichtetag 2008 in Innsbruck, Austria

06/14/07: “Countering Global Dissent: The U.S. Department of State and the Challenge of the Global 1960s Student Movements,” Interdisciplinary Conference “New World Coming: The Sixties and the Shaping of Global Consciousness”, Queen’s Univeristy, Kingston, Ontario, Canada

03/09/07 “Recontextualization of Symbolic Forms of Protest”, Workshop at “Designing a New Life: Aesthetics and Lifestyles of Political and Social Protest,” 2nd Workshop of the Marie Curie Conference and Training Series, German Department, University of Zurich, Switzerland, March 7-10, 2007

01/04-07/07: “Black Power in Europe,” AHA Research Cluster, “The Campus and the Street: Social Movements, Nationalism, and Youth Culture in Africa and the Diaspora (1945-Present)”, Annual Meeting of the American Historical Association (AHA), Atlanta (read)

09/28- “From Black to Red Panthers: Black Power Solidarity Networks and Liberation Discourses in 1960/70s West German Protest Movements,” Thirtieth Annual Meeting of the German Studies Association, Pittsburgh (read)

03/22-26/06: “Black and Red Panthers: West German Student Alliances with African-American Protest,” Panel: “Afros, Blues and Panthers: African-American Protest Identities in 60/70s West Germany,” International Conference “Crossovers: African Americans and Germany,” University of Muenster, Germany

01/5-8/06: “Confronting Global Protest: The U.S. Government’s Response to Worldwide Student Unrest in the 1960/70s – The Case of West Germany,” Panel “Imaginary Worlds: (Trans)National Identities in Germany in and after 1968” at the Annual Meeting of the American Historical Association (AHA), Philadelphia

05/21/05: “‘A Serious Concern of U.S. Foreign Policy’: The West German Student Movement and the Western Alliance,” International Symposium “The ‘Other’ Alliance: Political Protest, Intercultural Relations and Collective Identities in West Germany and the United States, 1958-77,” Internationales Wissenschaftsforum Heidelberg, Germany

06/25/04: “Remembering Global Protest: The Sixties in the U.S. and West Germany,” (with Belinda Davis), XIIIth International Oral History Conference, “Memory and Globalization,” Rome, Italy

10/18/03: “’SDS meets SDS’: The Transatlantic Dimension of Global Student Protest During the 1960s,” German Historical Institute, Workshop “Atlantic Crossings: Transcultural Relations and Political Protest in Germany and the United States, 1958-1977,” Washington, D.C.

10/13/03: “’Between Marx and Coca-Cola’: Transcultural Currents and Student Protest in West Germany and the U.S. During the 1960s,” Rutgers University, “Protest 1960-1980s: Trans- and Intercultural Perspectives,” New Brunswick, New Jersey

09/20/03: “New Left Alliances: German-American Networks in the Student Movements of the Early 1960s,” XXVIIth Annual Meeting of the German Studies Association, New Orleans

03/08/03: “’The Other Alliance’: Transatlantic Relations of the German Student Movement of the 1960s,” Presentation at the 3rd Annual Harvard Graduate Conference on International History (ConIH), “The United States from the Outside In, 1776-2000”, Cambridge, Massachusetts

Feb/April 02: “Between Berkeley and Berlin, San Francisco and Frankfurt: The Student Movements of the 1960s in Transatlantic Perspective,” Annual Conference of the Historians of the German Association for American Studies, Tutzing, Germany, February 2002 / Graduate Student Conference, Columbia University, New York City, April 2002

06/19-21/14: “The Transatlantic Community and the Globalization of Terror,” Panel at the Annual Meeting of the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations (SHAFR), Lexington, Kentucky (Chair/Commentator)

06/19-21/14: “International Communications and Foreign Relations, from the 1940s to the 1960s,” Panel at the Annual Meeting of the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations (SHAFR), Lexington, Kentucky (Chair)

09/27/2012: John A. Gronbeck-Tedesco, “Competing Cold War Exceptionalisms: Cuba, the United States, and Revolutionary Culture,” Commentator, Fall 2012 Seminar, Tamiment Library and the Center for the United States and the Cold War, New York University

06/28-30/2012: “The American Left and Global Revolution Since the 1960s,” Panel at the Annual Meeting of the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations (SHAFR), Hartford, Connecticut (Chair/Commentator)

01/07/2012: “Fighting for Equality: Children’s and Teenagers’ Activism during the Black Freedom Struggle,” Panel at the Annual Meeting of the American Historical Association, Chicago (Chair/Commentator)

06/23-25/2011: “Expect the Unexpected: Americans in Germany during the Cold War,” Panel at the Annual Meeting of the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations, Alexandria, Virginia (Commentator)

10/10/2010: “Mixed Feelings: Fear and Faith in the ‘Age of Extremes’,” Panel at the German Studies Association, Annual Conference, Oakland (Chair)

09/26/2009: “External Factors,” Panel at the Conference “Falling Behind or Catching Up? The East German Economy in the Twentieth Century,” German Historical Institute, Washington, DC (Chair)

08/26/2009: “Challenging the East-West Border,” Panel at the Conference “‘The Personal is Political’: The Interfaces between Politics and Culture across Europe in the 1970s,” Lucy Cavendish College, University of Cambridge (Chair)

11/26/2008: “Media Strategies and Television Representations of Protest,” Panel at the Conference “‘The Revolution will not be televised? – Media and Protest Movements Since 1945,” Volda University College, Volda, Norway (Chair)

09/17/2007: “The Italian ’68: A Site of Memory, a Site of Oblivion,” Paper by Luisa Passerini given at Nathan and Jeanette Miller Center for Historical Studies, Department of History, University of Maryland, College Park (Commentator)

08/26/2006: “Recontextualization of Protest Cultures,” Panel at the Conference “Between the ‘Prague Spring’ and the ‘French May’: Transnational Exchange and National Recontextualization of Protest Cultures in 1960/70s Europe,” Heidelberg Center for American Studies, University of Heidelberg (Chair)

05/20/2005: Panel Discussion with Helen Garvey and Robert Pardun on “Rebels with a Cause,” Conference “The ‘Other’ Alliance: Political Protest, Intercultural Relations and Collective Identities in West Germany and the United States, 1958-77”, German-American Institute, Heidelberg (Moderator)